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🗺️ Places and Names of Aotearoa

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10 questions. Get 8 right to earn 10 minutes. All 10 right = +5 bonus. They start easy and get harder as you go, so treat the first few as a warm-up. Every one you miss comes back with the answer and why.

1. What does 'maunga' mean in Māori place names?

MountainRiverHarbourVillage

2. What does 'motu' mean in a Māori place name?

ValleyCliffIslandCave

3. What does 'ara' mean in a Māori place name?

Path or wayStarCloudShellfish

4. What does 'whanga' mean, as in Whangārei or Whangamatā?

Harbour or bayMountainDesertWaterfall

5. What does 'awa' mean in a Māori place name?

PathLakeRiverBeach

6. What does Wellington's Māori name, Te Whanganui a Tara, mean?

The city of sailsThe land of riversThe great harbour of TaraThe place of hills

7. What is New Zealand's tallest mountain's official dual name?

Aoraki / Mount CookRuapehu / TamaTaranaki / EgmontTongariro / Ngāuruhoe

8. Despite its English name, roughly how long is Ninety Mile Beach?

About 9 kilometresAbout 500 kilometresAbout 88 kilometresAbout 145 kilometres

9. What does the dual naming of places like Mount Aspiring, also called Tititea, generally reflect?

That one of the two names must be wrongThat English names always came firstThat a landscape can carry more than one name and more than one history, both worth knowingThat mountains never had Māori names before Europeans arrived

10. Fox Glacier, in Westland, carries which Māori name?

WhakatūRakiuraPiopiotahiTe Moeka o Tuawe

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